It is indeed a need to return to what was China in the mid-nineteenth century to understand the different mutations suffered by the country from 1840 to the present day. War against the west‚ the last dynasty‚ proclaimed the republic‚ civil war‚ communist victory‚ socialization scale‚ the great leap forward‚ Cultural Revolution‚ Mao’s death‚ massacre of Tiananmen and the spectacular economic development. All these events must be considered together to understand the history‚ strengths and weaknesses
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"Either we do it or we shall be crushed‚" said a man in 1927‚ hoping to convince the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to grant him the Soviet ticket to power. Joseph Vissarionovish Dzhugashvili‚ better known as Joseph Stalin‚ was born in 1878 and rose to power in 1922. Being granted the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party‚ Stalin implemented new economic policies that brought 1‚ rapid industrialization‚ 2‚ equality of the classes‚ and 3‚ social services for all. Stalin introduced
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Mao Zedong Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He started the Great Leap Forward movement in China. Most of his goals‚ however‚ never worked out greatly for China. Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan‚ China on December 26‚ 1893. The country was in a very difficult time and life was hard for most people. Mao’s family lived better than most of China’s population and had three acres of farmland that they had kept for many generations. When Mao was 8 years old‚ he started going
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2014‚ and the Cold War has been over for nearly 3 decades now‚ but communism is still a very real thing‚ that has taken on a brand new form. This isn’t exactly a factual description of communism‚ it’s more along the lines of things that I think are communist. But these threats are very real‚ they are very scary‚ and they come in the form of modern day trends. One of the most common forms of communism that I see in today’s time is something that is horrifying‚ disgusting‚ and terrible. It is a strange
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Ironically‚ this “cleansing” was mainly motivated by Mao’s hatred towards “Khrushchev -type revisionists‚” which can be realised in one of two ways- (1) Mao was an idealistic man from an earlier generation of Communists‚ and saw Khrushchev as a traitor to his beliefs‚ much like a Christian would feel if the Pope denounced Christianity and said God wasn’t real‚ or‚ (2) Mao saw the example Khrushchev was setting as a cue to the men within the CCP to overthrow and
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Comdsfdsdmunism. China is a single-party republic ruled by the Communist Party. Other opinions: They are not communist. Communism does not have a centralized government. They are closer to socialism than communism. I would say a mixture of totalitarian and socialism. China was never Communist‚ it was Socialist‚ but now it’s basically a single party‚ part socialist‚ part capitalist‚ authoritarian/ totalitarian oligarchy with figurehead leaders. Functionally‚ it is a highly bureaucratic‚ multi-level
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dynamic. Change and adaptability have gone hand in hand with the passing of time for human society. Karl Marx’s views on Industrialization and the bourgeoisie had a major impact on how we view our industrial alignment today. Marx and Engel’s The Communist Manifesto gives broad views on the subject of the middle class and how they fit into a society that was ruled by feudalism and aristocracy. Capitalism becomes a major topic in a socialist-based society that underwent many changes as industrialization
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eventually he became convened to communism. Ho attempted to see Woodrow Wilson (US President) at the Conference of Versailles in 1919 to argue for Vietnamese independence. In 1920 the French Communist Party was formed and Ho became one of its founder members. ¨Ho‚ like the rest of the French Communist Party‚ had been inspired by
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their success. Comparing Lenin and Stalin one finds that both were following a communist ideal but what is the communist ideal? The main principal is to share a country’s wealth amongst its people. This is the theoretical side of the communist idea; the practical side requires a careful planning of the country’s economy and also a system that makes sure that everybody is treated equally. When Lenin and the communist party took over power‚ following the revolution in 1917‚ Lenin made sure that a
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Why did Mao rise to power in China? “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. “Mao Zedong clearly referring to the Kuomintang. After a bitter civil war (1946-1949)‚ which faced the major Chinese parties Kuomintang and CCP‚ Kuomintang’s defeat‚ evidenced with Chiang’s and 200.000 people´s fled to Formosa‚ Mao Zedong (1893-1976)‚ born in Shoshan‚ Hunan‚ proclaimed the new People´s Republic of China with himself as both Chairman of the CCP and President of the republic
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